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This beautiful courthouse is still being used in Auburn, California, and remains a very majestic historical monument. Travelers on I-80 East will see this building on the hill to the right as they pass by the town of Auburn. Built in 1894, this struc...

My colorful painting is of a home somewhere in the southwest USA. These buildings are fun to draw and paint and are very unique. Homes are made of adobe bricks and doors are painted bright colors. Ladders take people to the rooftops if they need to g...

Truckee, California, is located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range 100 miles east of Sacramento and 12 miles north of Lake Tahoe. Highway I-80 runs through Truckee, as does Amtrak. In September I spent some time here sketching the downtown area. The...

Now is the time where most pumpkin patches are thriving. Now that Halloween is here and gone many of the patches are a shell of what they were a month ago. But most of the pumpkins found homes and were carved up and lit up to show their scary masks.

I have always enjoyed any of the Frankenstein movies that have been produced through the years. Love the black and white film, scary noises the music and rainy, dark nights. But most of all I like the extra large creation brewed up by the doctor. I d...

The Chicago Cubs are in the playoffs in hopes of getting to the World Series after an amazing baseball season. My favorite Cub is not any one player but the little Cub patch on the shoulder. This little Cub was seen on many of the older uniforms and...